BLACK I.C.E. is an extensive mod of HOI3 under development by Panzeroo and many other members of the Hearts Of Iron 3 forum.
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Installing BlackICE may seem daunting at first, but provided you follow the directions here, you should have a relatively easy time with it. Step 1: After you have downloaded BlackICE, copy the installer to the same directory that as the hoi3game.exe and hoi3_tfh.exe files in it. Generally speaking, this will be somewhere like: • d:\games\Hearts of Iron 3 • c:\games\steam\steamapps\common\Hearts of Iron 3 Step 2: Install Podcat's LAA (Large Address Aware) version of the HOI3 .exe file with BlackICE. This will solve a great many issues with the game crashing as it will take advantage of the larger amounts of memory that newer computers can use. Podcat's LAA .exe file can be found in the Tech Support thread on the PI forum •Overwrite the original hoi3_tfh.exe file with it. Step 3: Run the installer. Do Not Change ANYTHING unless you know what you are doing, just hit next until you see finish. Click on finish.
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Great mod, just a question with giant infrastructure project when i finish research does it have to trigger some events or something? Because i did not get any events related to giant infrastructure projects neither while playing on 7.4 or 8.4 versions ;/. Any advice guys?
you need to have chosen long term economic option in the economic event. Read the event description as this allows the giant infra projects to be financed.
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Hate to bother you Panzeroo, but i cant figure out why i keep getting a different checksum version then my buddy. He has the correct version as i helped him get the mod, through teamviewer. Although now the irony of it is that i cant even get mine to run the correct version, i run some pt version, while he runs XUVN. Any help, ive reinstalled the game, followed the following download steps, i have the new version of the podcast. i cant figure it out sorry about above, forgot to log on
did you manually delete all the folders ? including in user/documents blackice and the mod launcher ? Manually remove every trace of Blackice and then reinstall.
I got the same thing, tried to reinstall 3 times with all process made step by step and still checksum diferent, can you especify exactly what we have to delete?
i already delete every trace of the game and BICE but nothing
are you getting the correct vanilla checksum
You mean just hoi3tfh without bice mod?
Did what checksum is supposet to vanilla tfh have?
hi!i can't download the map cache on the Mediafire.com. can you help me ?
Do we need your old special .exe launcher?
delete the old Blackice launcher. You still need podcat's TFH exe. That is essential as it allows the TFH exe to use more then 2Gb computer memory.
Help, I can't change law?
which country are you and what law are you trying to change to ?
i load the game and then when it says loading database II it crashes is this something on my part please respond when you get the chance
do you have podcat's TFh exe ?
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I keep having this problem, I invaded Brazil and when I took São Paulo a message appeared in Diplomacy for me to puppet the city, so I paid the price of 15 money but nothing happened, this happened a lot in a bunch of countries, can you guys help me?
you can only puppet if you annex the nation and it doesn't go government in exile. You can't puppet a city/ province, only whole nations.
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Hi PANZEROO!
My game keeps crashing on the 1st of may 1943. I tried to lower the resolution but it was impassible to play the game. I have also lowered the counter dist. as u have instructed on paradox forum.
what checksum do you have ? No other bug reports around this date. Doesn't mean there isn't something weird and rare, but it seems your game only has this.
what should I do then?
what is your checksum ? that way we can at least see if your install is correct
Where do I find the checksum?
4 letter code on the screen when you choose the nation to play.
what is a flying dutchman? is that literally a flying dutchman?
a legendary ghost ship
Is there a way to change difficulty settings during gameplay by some command? I mean, I have choosen 'no modifiers' for Japan, Germany, etc. and now I see it was a totally big mistake. I don't really want to restart...
you could edit the save game, however it would probably be pointless. The difficulty settings mainly affect a nation's research and production ability. So it has more or less and better or worse units. Obviously this affects the game over a long period. So it depends on how far into the game you are as to whether it makes any difference. Probably better todo a restart.
What exactly are the uses of the armored trains that germany gets in an event? Also a lot of units are not even covered on the site like railway artillery and such.
armored trains are a anti partisan HQ unit.
Check the BICE manual it should cover all the units
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i found a bug related whit SS armored AA,18pzd hq, image misin and ss dasreich the division dont spawn
thanks, these have already been fixed for 8.5 which will be out soon.
Belgium and Netherland's threat level to Germany is extremely high. I played a good 10+ games with Germany, following the historical path, rhineland occupations, winter games, Anschluss, Treaty of Munich then declared war on Poland on the 1st of September via the event. Also signed and honored the Molotov Ribbentrop pact.
Yet, in every single game i've had either Belgium or the Netherlands eventually declare war on me in late 1939. It's almost always Belgium but sometimes the Netherlands too. This should be looked at because in the previous versions, they hardly ever declared war on me and i could safely do whatever until i got the event in May 1940 to declare war on the Low Countries. Am i doing something wrong? I kept trying to raise their relations with me by constant trade agreements and i even cheated with the "debug yesmen" command to sign a non aggression pact with Belgium AND THEY STILL DECLARED WAR!
Is it because i have troops at their border? But they declare war even if i have no troops there.
I really want to follow the historical path with the events but this is making it impossible. Can you take a look at this or offer some explanations please? In all the previous versions i could follow the historical route by doing the exact same things and not have them declare war on me.
Thanks.
you need to influence thos nations and/ or trade with them to reduce threat levels. This is a function of the game mechanics. Germany is a threat to those nations and the AI will react accordingly. So reduce threat by influence, trade with them, or increase the threat of nations such as the UK
Huh i didn't think of that. I guess i can use my extra 30+ spies to do something like that.
Thanks
Is there event for historical Yugoslavia invasion when you are Germany? And my checksum was right but i have Hitler always die before war, its annoying and break immersion for me. Happened again even with restart. Glad i find event which i deleted. its is bug or know issue?
Its not a bug or an issue. Bascially the hitler unit will trigger the leaderloss event if you change the name or remove the unit from the OOB. This is a design feature. So keep Hitler intact and on the map, or pay the price ! There is a historical event chain for the Balkans.
So I just installed Black Ice 8.4, but when I run it, it keeps crashing on Database 2; saying it cannot load some files. I do have Podcat's LAA, My system has 6Gb of RAM (3.25 Free), a 32-bit OS, and a 3.4 GHz processor. Can anyone offer any help?
32bit is your problem as the LAA exe ( podcat's TFH exe) won't work. You need to do some further tinkering.
With 32bit systems one needs also to use the "/3GB" switch in the "boot.ini" system file, like in the last line here:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0) partition(2)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Home /3GB" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB / Userva=2900
Windows Vista/7: How to setup increaseuserva Bootparameter
Navigate to Start> All Programs>Accessories>
Right-click "Command prompt" and choose "Run as administrator"
A command line window should open
Type in "BCDEdit /set increaseuserva 3072" (without quotation marks)
3072 is the maximum, "2560" or "2816" is in most cases sufficent.
To let the changes take effect restart your computer
Thank you very much, that has seemed to solve the problem. Now unfortunately I have another. It loads past Database 2, but now it crashes when loading quad texture 12. I did download your map cache, and copied it over. When I look in the cache, it is missing several quad textures (10, 13, etc.) I dont know if these are supposed to be there or not, I just thought it might be useful information. Thank you so much for you help, and any possible future help.
could your cache download be corrupted ? Remove the old cache in black ice user/ documents and paste in the new one.
Keep having the CTD when saving game. Is there another solution than the erase the logs and have 2 savegames only? Thanks!!! sorry for my english Im from Italy.
There is an entire thread of solutions people have posted on the BICE paradox forum.https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/save-game-ctd-solutions.827539/
Hello Panzeroo, I have a problem when attempting to launch a naval invasion.
When I try to invade any piece of land, my divisions don't move there due to always having 0 days of supplies. I have never had this problem before and it seems as if nothing I do could fix this problem (Using the capital as the port, decreasing distance, etc.)
what sort of ships are you using to launch the invasions ?
Passenger ships
ocean liners/ passenger ships are for port - port transfers only ( try doing an amphibious assault from an ocean liner...) use auxiliary vessels ( which represent barges/ small ships etc) or research and build landingcraft or assault ships. Keep the passenger ships out of the invasion fleet !
Great Mod, just did a clean install of HoI3 and Black Ice 8.4. I have Pod Cats LAA, loads up fine, plays fine but cannot click on any of the national decisions at start of game. Such as BI settings, espionage, etc...Any ideas what I did wrong? :)
NVM started a new game and seemed to have fixed it. Once again great mod.